Specialized Position - French Immersion High School Teacher - Humanities - Grades 9 - 12 - Temporary/Replacement Vacancy

Simplication; High River; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Foothills School Division in Alberta seeks qualified educators fluent in French to join a collaborative Professional Learning Community. The role emphasizes designing and planning learning activities that transfer and developing thinking competencies.

Candidates will assess student variables to inform meaningful, experiential learning and demonstrate capacity to build strong relationships with students, families, staff and the wider community while integrating Maker-centered, CTS/CT learning

Qualifications

• Fluent in French required for all successful candidates.
• Ability to design and plan learning activities that transfer and develop thinking competencies.
• Assess student variables to inform the design of meaningful and experiential learning opportunities and effective assessment practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with colleagues in a Professional Learning Community.
• Design and plan learning activities that transfer across contexts and foster thinking skills.
• Assess student progress to inform instructional design and assessment practices.
• Foster effective relationships with students, families, staff and the community while supporting extracurricular involvement and maker-centered learning.

Skills

Fluent in French

Job description

Our Division & Communities

Foothills School Division (FSD) serves the learning needs of approximately 8000 students from preschool to grade 12. We operate 22 public schools, an online digital school, an alternative campus, and three colony schools. These are located in the towns of Okotoks, High River, and Diamond Valley, and the communities of Blackie, Cayley, Heritage Heights, Red Deer Lake, Longview, Millarville and Foothills County.

FSD is located on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy and the first peoples of southern Alberta including the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, Tsuut’ina, and Stoney Nakoda First Nations. This land is also the proud home to the Métis Nation of Alberta Region 3. FSD stretches from the city of Calgary's southern border and east of Kananaskis Country in Foothills County.

The Role

All successful candidates must be fluent in French.

The Candidate

As a member of a highly motivated team and student-centered educator, you are prepared to collaborate with colleagues in a Professional Learning Community.Your teaching practice includes the ability to design and plan learning activities that transfer, and develop thinking competencies. Further, your practice assesses individual student variables to inform the design of meaningful and experiential learning opportunities and effective assessment practice.

Your ability to foster effective professional relationships with student, families, staff and community is critical. You demonstrate a willingness to engage in extra-curricular activities and support students in the whole school experience that characterizes effective schools.Your capacity to integrate technologies and and support experiential learning that connects students to community resources within Maker-centered learning, CTF and CTS learning environments is evident.

We appreciate and consider all applications, but only those applicants

selected for further consideration will be contacted.